RSL Ondaatje Prize

"An annual award of £10,000 for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, evoking the spirit of a place" (from the website of the Royal Society of Literature)

  • 2024:
    • Shortlist:
      • Falling Animals by Sheila Armstrong
      • Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
      • A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
      • Cuddy by Benjamin Myers
      • No Man’s Land by David Nash
      • Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman
    • Longlisted:
      • The Britannias by Alice Albinia
      • Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
      • Local Interest by Emily Hasler
      • Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuld Hester
      • In Search of Berlin by John Kampfner
      • Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
      • Two Lights: Walking Through Landscapes of Loss and LIfe by James Roberts
      • Elowen: A Story of Grief and Love by William Henry Searle
Previous winners in reverse order
  • 2023: Heritage Aesthetics by Anthony Anaxagorou
  • 2022: Free by Lea Ypi
  • 2021: The Butchers by Ruth Gilligan
  • 2020: A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson
  • 2019: The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History by Aida Edemariam
  • 2018: Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit
  • 2017: Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
  • 2016: Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev
  • 2015: Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood by Justin Marozzi
  • 2014: This Boy by Alan Johnson
  • 2013: Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher
  • 2012: The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya
  • 2011: The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
  • 2010: The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica by Ian Thomson
  • 2009: Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History by Adam Nicolson
  • 2008: The Discovery of France by Graham Robb
  • 2007: In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
  • 2006: The People’s Act of Love by James Meek
  • 2005: The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
  • 2004: Hearing Birds Fly by Louisa Waugh

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